Students help out with blood donations

Donation centers from OneBlood lined the curbs outside Fort Walton Beach High School on Thursday in their signature red buses.

Also lined up were students ready to do their part to help others. Viking donors who were not legal age to give blood were required to have a release signed by a parent.

Braden Dorman, a sophomore at the school called his mom, Jennifer Handley, to approve his donation. She was overwhelmed when she arrived and saw the line of students.

"When I arrived at the school, the hallway was full of students in line to sign up. And the recent weeks after hearing so much about teen bullying, suicide, drug abuse and so forth, it was heartwarming for me to see all these students participating in such a positive event," Handley wrote in an email to the Daily News.

To find the next OneBlood donation site go to www.oneblood.org/donate-now/.